Acknowledgement and thanks to Duongporn Songvisa and Dylan Jones, Bo.Lan restaurant, David Thompson, Nahm restaurant, Henrik Yde-Anderson, Sra Bua by Kiin-Kiin, all the food hawkers that I have studied and who feed me late at night, all the grandmothers who cooked for me and showed me in Indonesia especially in Bukittinggi and all the kitchen staff and friends in Bali and Canada who I cannot do without.